Rachel Maddow shows us some footage from 1979 Ixtoc I oil spill and as she notes it's pretty obvious the only thing we've learned is how to drill more deeply but absolutely nothing about how to stop a blowout or contain the oil.

This didn't make me feel any better about this latest move of they're calling "top kill" working. We're seeing mud come out of the pipes but they haven't sealed the well by any means.